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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title>RSS Music Tutorials</title> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/</link> <description>Music Tutorials</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:20:49 +0100</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>daily</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item> <title>Free online Guitar lessons for Kids</title> <description>One of the most important factors in guitar lessons for kids is finding the right teacher. Guitar teacher Raymond L. shares his secrets for finding a great teacher for your child… In my opinion one of the first qualities, you ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/guitar_kids.jpg" alt="A young kid learning to play" align="left" /><p>One of the most important factors in guitar lessons for kids is finding the right teacher. Guitar teacher Raymond L. shares his secrets for finding a great teacher for your child… In my opinion one of the first qualities, you, as a parent, have to look for in a guitar teacher is that they inspire your child and help them develop a profound love for this beautiful musical instrument. If your guitar teacher does not inspire your child, very likely they won’t be able to motivate your child or awaken in them a passion for the guitar, which is so essential to assure a progressive and sound development in your child’s musical and technical abilities. As a parent, you should ask yourself these questions to see if a guitar teacher is right for your child: Does the guitar teacher know how to stimulate a positive attitude in my child? What systems does he or she use to motivate my child? Does the guitar teacher have good teaching skills and experience? Stimulating a Positive Attitude It is crucial that your guitar teacher works with your child to create a positive mindset because many students get easily frustrated when they are taking beginner guitar lessons. So the guitar teacher has to help with the anxiety of the student, always making him or her feel at ease. They should tell your child, from the start, to avoid using the words “hard” or “difficult” in their vocabulary whenever they are experiencing some technical difficulty in playing a piece of music, but rather to substitute the word “challenging” for other words that have a more negative connotation. Your guitar teacher should encourage your child to never say, “I can’t”, but to say instead, “I will”. It is also essential for your guitar teacher to get to know your child’s interests: for example what kind of music they love in order to be prepared and able to teach your child those songs, or the type of music that most inspires them. Your guitar teacher has to establish long-term, intermediate- and short-term goals together with your child, by brainstorming with them and incorporate those goals in the curriculum. Your guitar teacher should never foster the feeling in your child that they are being punished, for example, making them repeat a song or a passage too many times. On the contrary, they should reinforce the child’s self-confidence by accompanying them, while repeating the song or music section, just enough to keep their interest and help them continue learning. Motivation When your child achieves one of their goals and is able to play their first song, riff, or piece of music satisfactorily, they will get what we call in psychology, “intrinsic motivation”.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Lessons For Kids]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/LessonsForKids/free-online-guitar-lessons-for-kids</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/LessonsForKids/free-online-guitar-lessons-for-kids</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2020 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Electric guitar lessons for Beginners videos</title> <description>Welcome to video six in the Beginner Guitar Quick-Start Series. In this lesson, I’m going to teach you how to tune the guitar. Knowing how to tune your guitar is very important because no matter how great of a guitar player you ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/guitar_lessons_free_video_guitar.jpg" alt="Guitar Lessons - Free Video" align="left" /><p>Welcome to video six in the Beginner Guitar Quick-Start Series. In this lesson, I’m going to teach you how to tune the guitar. Knowing how to tune your guitar is very important because no matter how great of a guitar player you are, if your guitar is out of tune, it’s not going to sound very good. By the end of this lesson, you’ll know everything you need to tune your guitar. This will be a longer lesson because I want to make sure that we don’t leave anything out, so we’ll break it up into three main sections. The first section is tuning theory and tips, the second section is tuning the guitar with an electronic tuner, and the last section is tuning your guitar by ear. If you already know how to use an electronic tuner to tune your guitar, feel free to skip to the part about tuning by ear. If you know how to tune your guitar altogether, you can move right to the next lesson. Let’s talk about what you need to know to tune your guitar. You’ve already learned the names of the open strings on the guitar, which were E-A-D-G-B-E. The next thing you need to learn is the natural musical alphabet, which is simple but a must-know. The natural musical alphabet is the first seven letters of the alphabet, so A-B-C-D-E-F-G. You also need to be familiar with the concept of a note being flat or sharp. The symbol onscreen in the video that looks like a lowercase ‘b’ is the flat symbol, and when it’s next to a natural note, it means the note is flat. When we talk about being flat while tuning the guitar, this means the note needs to come up a bit. The next symbol onscreen that looks like a tic-tac-toe grid is the sharp symbol. When we talk about being sharp while tuning, this means the note is a little too high and it needs to come down. When you use an electronic tuner, there are a couple of ways it will tell you if a note is sharp or flat. One way is using lights, which will be off to the left if your note is flat and needs to come up a little. If the lights are off to the right, your note is sharp and needs to come down. Instead of lights, an electronic tuner might use a needle, which works the same way the lights do. Learning how to tune your guitar can be tricky at first, and just like any other guitar skills, it will take practice. I’ll give you some tips that will help you from breaking strings, which can be very frustrating as you learn how to tune. The first tip I want to give you is to make sure you’re turning the right tuning key. For example, if you want to tune your D string, follow the D string along the fretboard to the headstock where you can see the correct tuning key to use. Otherwise, you might accidentally turn the A string tuning key, wonder why your D string isn’t changing, and end up breaking your D string. Always double-check that you are turning the right tuning key for the string you’re tuning. The second tip to help you from breaking strings is that if you think you’re tuning the string too high or too far, you probably are. I suggest you stop, crank the string back down, and start again. One thing to practice before you get started is to go to any string and play with the tuning key, find out how much turning makes the note go up or down, and get familiar with the string. Today, there are lots different tuners you can choose from. There are clip on tuners, pedal tuners, and handheld tuners. It doesn’t matter what kind you use, and you can get a good tuner for $15-20. Today in the video, I’ll be using a tuning app on my iPad, which also works really well. One thing I want to show you on my tuning app before we get started is that if you have a calibration setting on your tuner, make sure it is set to A 440 Hz. This is the standard tuning frequency, and if you’re not tuned to this, you’ll sound a little off from everyone else. Now let’s get in to tuning your guitar with an electronic tuner, and I’ll break it into a two-step process for you. The first step is to get each string to the proper note name, so if you were tuning your low E string, get the note to an E first. After that, you’ll fine-tune the E note so that it is spot on. Starting with the low E note, which I threw out of tune earlier, you can see in the video that it is a D sharp right now, which is lower than it should be. As I use the tuning key to change the note, you can see that I get it up to an E, and matching the note name is the first step. As I play the string again, you can see the E is still a bit low because the tuning needle is to the left. Now I fine-tune the note by slowly turning the tuning key until the tuning needle is in the middle.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Lessons For Beginners]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/LessonsForBeginners/electric-guitar-lessons-for-beginners-videos</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/LessonsForBeginners/electric-guitar-lessons-for-beginners-videos</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2020 16:17:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Voice lessons for Adults</title> <description>I've been toying with the idea of taking singing lessons. The reason: My singing voice sucks, but I love music and I'd love to be able to sing. I had a coworker who was a semi-professional singer (along with his wife). They even ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/kathys_voice_studio.jpg" alt="Voice Lessons for Adults and" align="left" /><p>I've been toying with the idea of taking singing lessons. The reason: My singing voice sucks, but I love music and I'd love to be able to sing. I had a coworker who was a semi-professional singer (along with his wife). They even tried out for American Idol when the auditions came to our city. I picked his brain about learning to sing, and here's what I learned: 1) You can learn to sing well as an adult, but like playing the violin, you'll probably never become a true virtuoso unless you've been studying since childhood. Voice training involves learning to control and exercise many different muscles in your throat and chest that you normally don't use very often, and if you haven't developed good habits as a child, it can be nearly impossible to "un-ruin" your voice as an adult. 2) Men have it way harder than women. (I think it's a puberty thing.) 3) Some people are just born with bad singing voices, and there's not much that can be done to change it. With hard work they can learn to disguise the uglier facets of their voice and sing passably well (think Kevin Kline in "De-Lovely"), but there are limits. On the plus side, some really great musicians have technically bad voices (Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger), but it didn't stop them from achieving great musical success. 4) Conversely, some people have naturally beautiful singing voices and can learn to sing very will in a short period of time. Hope you're one of them. 5) And the obvious: find a good teacher. Most will be willing to work with you whether you sound like Pavarotti or a dying horse. It's all money in their pocket, and some of them enjoy a good challenge, as long as you're willing to do your share of the work.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Voice Lessons]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/VoiceLessons/voice-lessons-for-adults</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/VoiceLessons/voice-lessons-for-adults</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Piano lessons in Atlanta</title> <description>I am a native of Atlanta, Georgia who has been studying music for 20 years. My first instrument was the piano at age 6, and I began playing percussion in my middle school band when I was 11. My deep love of music drove me to ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/piano_lessons_in_atlanta_ga.jpg" alt="Piano Lessons in Atlanta" align="left" /><p>I am a native of Atlanta, Georgia who has been studying music for 20 years. My first instrument was the piano at age 6, and I began playing percussion in my middle school band when I was 11. My deep love of music drove me to pursue a Bachelor of Music Performance degree, which I earned Magna Cum Laude from the University of Georgia in 2012. In college, I studied percussion with Tim Adams, retired principal timpanist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Music is an exciting and enormous world that I am eager to share with you, either at your home or in my stud io. I am a patient, funny, and outgoing teacher who caters to your specific needs as a student. While I have studied classical music for many years, I also offer lessons in popular music styles, including rock, jazz, funk, and hip-hop. I frequently perform as a freelance musician and recording artist, playing anything from drum set in my rock band Grand Vapids to solo musical saw. I have performed nationally and internationally with ROC, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Arts!Oglethorpe, Athena Opera, Chamber Cartel, Classic City Jazz, Oconee Youth Playhouse, and numerous groups around the southeast. I believe that with positive dedication and a great attitude, any musical goal you have in mind can be achieved. Let me be the person to help you with your goal! Thanks for stopping by my page, and I hope to teach you soon! -Paul S. *** Lesson Details *** I strongly believe in the idea of constant positive re-enforcement when it comes to teaching music. Negativity leads to tension, and tension is NOT conducive to learning. I am an enthusiastic and gentle educator, but I will firmly drive you or your child to achieve musical goals in a fun and exciting atmosphere. Motivation is essential to practice, and the importance of practice could never be overstated. This is why I stress positivity! I ask only that you come to your lesson prepared and unafraid of making mistakes. As a beginning musical student, you can expect to have the fundamentals of reading and comprehending written music within 3 months. On the day of your first lesson, we'll discuss your goals and interests, and I will recommend books and materials to aid you on your journey. I will systematically teach you the basic rudiments and techniques that are essential to proper hand and finger movement; I'll also teach you mental techniques to ensure great practice. As an intermediate or advanced student, we'll discuss your previous education and musical interests, and I'll direct you towards the styles you want to pursue. We'll also work on concepts of music theory and performance. Since performance is an important part of music, I will coordinate an optional recital in the winter and spring for students to showcase their hard work and talent. This low-stress concert will be held at a local school or community center and will surely be a great experience for all those involved. I teach from my home studio in Ormewood Park, Atlanta. Two friendly cats live here, but if you or your child are wary of pets, Tycho and Charlie will be closed off in another room for the duration of our lesson. Let's make beautiful music together! *** Studio Equipment *** Various drums (including a drum kit) and percussion instruments, piano, guitars. *** Specialties *** I was trained classically, so I am happy to pass on a love of classical music through lessons. However, I have been playing jazz and popular music since high school and am also knowledgeable in these genres.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Piano Lessons]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/PianoLessons/piano-lessons-in-atlanta</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/PianoLessons/piano-lessons-in-atlanta</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>First Piano lesson Plan</title> <description>This article is for teachers of young beginners on piano who need lesson plan ideas. General thoughts included here work especially well for the first 3 months of study, which is when a routine and familiarity is established with ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/first_3_months_of_piano_lessons.jpg" alt="Their First Lessons" align="left" /><p>This article is for teachers of young beginners on piano who need lesson plan ideas. General thoughts included here work especially well for the first 3 months of study, which is when a routine and familiarity is established with the instrument. For young beginners, piano study is a great way to begin music lessons, and the piano can function as a gateway to other instruments. Some teachers, though, may find the 4, 5, and 6 year old age group a difficult one to approach, as the lessons must be conducted a bit differently to accommodate the fact that students are still learning to read, do not have fully refined fine motor skills, and need lessons to meet their attention span. So say you are a piano teacher starting with a young beginner and want some ideas on how to make the lessons successful and meet the needs of this age group. Never fear! I have included some tips and advice on how to develop your lesson plans at a great pace and keep enthusiasm levels high—for both yourself and the student. What books should I use? In advising other teachers on what methods work best for 4, 5 and 6 year olds, my go-tos are the “My First Piano Adventure” books by Faber and the “Music for Little Mozarts” series by Alfred. Both methods are excellent resources, but I am partial to the Faber books as a necessary part of the curriculum, and I’d make sure to introduce the Lesson Book A and Writing Book A as a first step. If you would like to incorporate the Lesson Book of the Alfred series in conjunction with the Faber books as an added resource, I think that’s a great idea, as one or the other may resonate better with an individual student, and variety is always great for young beginners. One of the reasons I really enjoy the Faber series is that games and interactive exercises in the first several lessons are included, and these can always be explored over and over. An example is the “Stone on the Mountain” interactive exercise that gets students ready to play by establishing a correct hand shape. Another is the improvised duet at the very beginning of the book—I actually warm up with this for the first 3 months of study with all young students. Keep it Moving! Let’s get into the mindset of a 5 year old. It’s really tough to sit still, everything is new and exciting, and you want to bounce around from one new thing to another. As teachers, we have to understand that working in a concentrated way for even 10 minutes on the same song can get really boring. This is where the creativity of the teacher needs to come in. Don’t let the lesson get stale and uninteresting by not moving on to something else. In your lessons, try to focus on one component of a song or exercise as the goal for that week. For example, if a hand position is tough for a student to find or establish, make the lesson on that song just mastering the placement of the hands for that week. If the student needs a practice assignment based around this, it’s just to go to the piano, place hands correctly, and that’s it! Now the key to making this successful, though, is that there needs to be many songs and exercises that are used in one lesson…which brings me to my next point…. Repeat, Repeat, Repeat! In piano lessons for an 8 or 9 year old, most often, a student masters an assignment, and you move on to the next. I strongly advise against this pace for a young beginner. I think having a collection of songs that are mastered and in progress to review each week makes the lessons much more fun for the student, because as they are learning new things, they are still able to play songs with which they are very comfortable. This contributes to positive self-esteem about their playing ability and makes the lessons more fun! An added bonus for the teacher is that accompaniment can be added, you can work on technique, and you can have a collection of favorites for them to share with their family. Feel free to take a slow pace with adding new songs, especially in the very beginning, and review the first 5 songs many times before moving on. After a few months, this process won’t be needed as much, and a normal flow with new songs can be incorporated. Also, having songs that are familiar to play helps students develop fine motor skills through repetition, and they will be much more likely to practice a song they understand when sitting down at the instrument.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Lesson Plans]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/LessonPlans/first-piano-lesson-plan</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/LessonPlans/first-piano-lesson-plan</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2020 15:54:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Best online acoustic Guitar lessons</title> <description>Beginners Intermediates and Advanced Players All styles of play (just $19.95 per month for complete membership) Sample of a nice intermediate acoustic lesson playing "Landslide" on the Jamplay Website Jamplay has a slew of ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/ram7si.jpg" alt="Online Unaltered pic" align="left" /><p>Beginners Intermediates and Advanced Players All styles of play (just $19.95 per month for complete membership) Sample of a nice intermediate acoustic lesson playing "Landslide" on the Jamplay Website Jamplay has a slew of professionals (nearly 50) teaching everything from beginner acoustic guitar lessons to more advanced blues, rock, or lead electric guitar. Sample of Biginner type lessons, starting from the very beginning, for the brand new player! JamPlay.com is hitting it big in the guitar world and have grown to the largest online guitar lesson site since their launch in 2007. Their website is a membership only service which broadcasts high-definition video guitar lessons. They have brought together guitar instruction with interactivity... even allowing you to ask questions to their video instructors. They feature 4-5 guitar instructors to give you a selection in teaching methods (and have over 50 different professional guitar players and instructors), which is a big plus. Here is a great introduction to some more edgy techniques on the electric guitar with Dennis Hedges. This one is perfect for metal heads. Learn string skipping, speed bursts, and accent displacement. They teach by "lesson set", which means there is order and consistency to your guitar learning track, instead of just flopping out a ton of small video clips. They start with the very basics like tuning your guitar, finger placement, and basic chords, and move on to finger-picking, palm muting, hammer ons, pull offs, and many more advanced topics as you progress through the lessons. We found this surprisingly good for the overall experience, because you can follow through these lesson sets just how you would with a normal guitar teacher. Biggest thing is, it's cheap as well because they get so many members. Here is another example of just one of many intermediate / advanced techniques called economy picking by Emil Werstler!</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Acoustic Guitar]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/AcousticGuitar/best-online-acoustic-guitar-lessons</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/AcousticGuitar/best-online-acoustic-guitar-lessons</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Blues Guitar Solo Lesson</title> <description>Are you frustrated about your Blues solos? You see other players at the jam sessions and they seem to sound much better than you? Your solo sounds like it's not "going anywhere"? You may have one or more of the problem above, and ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/blues_brothers_jailhouse_rock_solo_tab.jpg" alt="Blues Brothers Jailhouse rock" align="left" /><p>Are you frustrated about your Blues solos? You see other players at the jam sessions and they seem to sound much better than you? Your solo sounds like it's not "going anywhere"? You may have one or more of the problem above, and if you are like me you have tried and asked what to do to some of the more experienced player you know. What most "old cats" will tell you is that you should learn "how to break the rules" (but what rules anyway?) or that you simply have to "let it go". Forgive me for being blunt, but these are only good-sounding platitudes that are unlikely to be of any help to you. I have heard a lot of these from musicians who can't or won't explain you in detail what your musicianship is lacking. And hey, if your Blues solo do not sound great, this means that you are definitively missing something and you better discover it soon if you want to become a better player and leave your buddies with their jaw on the floor. Taking years to learn from trial-and-error and is not really an option you want to take. Well, in my experience most Blues players that are not yet accomplished tend to do all the same 5 mistakes until someone warns them. Every single one of these mistakes can prevent your solo from sounding great, and you may not even have noticed them yet! Or worse, you know that you are doing one of the things I list below, but you think it's ok because it sounds good to you, or it makes your life easier. Well, forgive me for saying that, but being a Blues player does not excuse you from studying your instrument. And now that I have captured your sympathy with this last statement, let's have a look at some of the problems that may prevent you and many other Blues players from realizing their musical potential. 1. Bending out of pitch It may have happened to you that you hear someone improvising on stage and every now and then one or two notes sound out of tune. It's clearly not the guitar being out of tune, otherwise the whole solo will sound bad. What I just described is the most common symptom of a player that bends out of tune. Every time you bend a string you should bend up to a very specific pitch, and not simply bend "up". Sure, in the Blues style we also have the "smear" bends I.e. bends of less than a semitone from the original pitch, but these bends are the exception not the rule, and should definitely not used as an excuse for not working on the intonation of your bends. The easiest way to learn how to bend in tune is to use a tuner to check if you are hitting the target pitch precisely. Since the tuner is unforgiving you may not be able to do it the first time you try, but if you stick to it it will become second nature in little time. 2. Consistently avoiding the interval of a 4th One difficult motion that beginner players consistently avoid is the so-called "rolling motion": using the same finger to play two consecutive notes on the same fret but different strings. This is one of the techniques used to play and interval of a 4th on the guitar (and the only way if you play on a pentatonic pattern), so unless you are familiar with it, you are avoiding it too. As the other ones, this problem is not immediately evident to the player, but believe me, if you never play the interval of a 4th, the people who listen to you are definitely noticing that something is missing, even if they cannot put a name on it. So what can we do about it? Two things: 1. The first one is to learn properly the rolling motion. As it is difficult to explain it in a written article, I have prepared a free Blues guitar video for you that explains how to perform this movement. 2. The second one is to actually invent some licks for you to use that actually use the rolling motion. If you fail to do that, then you will never use the rolling motion in a real solo. Use it or lose it!</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Blues Guitar Lessons]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/BluesGuitarLessons/blues-guitar-solo-lesson</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/BluesGuitarLessons/blues-guitar-solo-lesson</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Left handed guitar lessons for Beginners</title> <description>There are many things about your left hand that you should be aware of when you are playing guitar. Relaxing and finger placement are the two main things that we will focus on during this lesson. Many guitarists have their own ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/learn_guitar_chords_scales_and_tuning.jpg" alt="Man placing finger on guitar" align="left" /><p>There are many things about your left hand that you should be aware of when you are playing guitar. Relaxing and finger placement are the two main things that we will focus on during this lesson. Many guitarists have their own idea of what proper technique is. The ideas in this lesson are not necessarily strict rules for technique, but they are good guidelines for developing your playing and keeping yourself injury free. At the end of this lesson, we will give you an exercise that will help you to focus on good left hand technique. Being relaxed is something that is very important for you to be aware of. If you are practicing the guitar and you start to feel any excessive tension in your fingers, hands, arms, back or neck, you should stop and relax. Doing some stretches helps too. Tension can not only be hazardous to your health, but it can also slow down your playing. A relaxed hand can move much more quickly and efficiently than a tense hand. When you are playing the guitar, it is very important that your fingers on your left hand have proper finger placement. Good finger placement is right behind the fret. If you are playing a note and notice that your finger is in the middle or toward the back of the fret, you should move it up until it is pretty close to the fret. This will make it easier for you to play clean and clear notes. You should use your ears to help you with your finger placement too. If you hear some buzzing on a note, check your finger placement. Most of the time a small adjustment will help to clear up some buzzing. Keeping your left thumb right in the middle of the back of the neck is also an important thing to remember. If you remember to do this, you can eliminate some of the tension that bad technique can cause. There is a very simple exercise that you can use to focus on relaxing and good finger placement. Start out by putting your 1st finger on the 3rd fret of your 6th string. Now stay on the low E string and play the 4th fret with your 2nd finger. Finish your low E string by playing the 5th fret with your 3rd finger. That is the pattern for all six strings. Move to your A string and play the 3rd, 4th and 5th frets with your 1st 2nd and 3rd fingers. Continue this pattern on your D, G, B, and E strings. This may seem like a simple exercise but that is the idea. If you don’t have to remember a scale or a complicated pattern, you will be free to focus on your left hand technique. Start out slowly, get the exercise clean, and then build up your speed. Be sure to use alternate picking throughout the entire exercise. You really don’t have to spend a lot of time on exercises like this. Five to ten minutes a day should do. It is important that you take exercises like this slowly if you are a beginner. Slow practice in the beginning will pay off with good pain free technique in the future.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Lessons For Beginners]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/LessonsForBeginners/left-handed-guitar-lessons-for-beginners</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/LessonsForBeginners/left-handed-guitar-lessons-for-beginners</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2020 15:41:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Music lessons for elementary students</title> <description>Looking for more ways to connect music to other areas of the curriculum? How about? * an ABC book? Combine music with language and visual arts by creating an ABC book of music terminology, composers, or famous musicians. * a ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/lets_talk_about_music_lessons.jpg" alt="Let's talk about music lessons" align="left" /><p>Looking for more ways to connect music to other areas of the curriculum? How about? * an ABC book? Combine music with language and visual arts by creating an ABC book of music terminology, composers, or famous musicians. * a music history timeline? Make a timeline of historic events in the history of American music, jazz, country music, rock, or another genre. * a musical "routines?" Include music as a motivation for classroom clean-up. You'll find fun lyrics for singing at Tidy-Up Transitions from Dr. Jean, Songs for Clean-Up Time, or It Is Time to Clean the Room. * Amelia Bedelia? Amelia Bedelia is up to her usual zaniness in Bravo, Amelia Bedelia! Read aloud the book and then have students illustrate the silly scenes that Amelia "orchestrates" - from picking up a train conductor (instead of the orchestra conductor) to Amelia's version of a B flat (a flat bee) and a drumroll (you guess!). Students are sure to give Amelia a standing ovation.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Music Lessons]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/MusicLessons/music-lessons-for-elementary-students</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/MusicLessons/music-lessons-for-elementary-students</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Acoustic Guitar lessons London</title> <description>Welcome to Guitar Lessons London! My name is Hawi Gondwe and I am a professional guitar teacher based in Camden, London, (though I can travel to my students) teaching guitar to students of all ages and abilities. I am a very ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/electric_guitar_lessons_london_london_guitar.jpg" alt="Guitar-Lessons-In-London" align="left" /><p>Welcome to Guitar Lessons London! My name is Hawi Gondwe and I am a professional guitar teacher based in Camden, London, (though I can travel to my students) teaching guitar to students of all ages and abilities. I am a very passionate guitarist with 10 years teaching experience and almost 30 years experience of playing very many styles of popular music including Jazz and often at the highest level. I also have extensive experience as a performer, music educator, songwriter and composer. I have taught, and continue to teach, as a visiting guitar tutor at various schools and colleges for over ten years in such schools as Westminster City School in 2014 and colleges such as Newham Sixth Form College from 2012 to now. I cover a wide range of styles from acoustic folky fingerpicking and strumming to classic rock styles, pop, jazz, soul and funk both as a teacher and guitar player - this enables me to tailor my guitar lessons to my student's musical preferences. Alongside my teaching I am also a professional musican and I have performed with many great musicians over the years including artists like Amy Winehouse, below is a video of Amy Winehouse and I performing at the Mercury Music Awards in 2007: I would be more than happy to teach you to play guitar if you are interested in rapidly advancing your learning with an intuitive ‘hands on’ approach based around your favourite songs and styles. The amount of theory you are offered is up to you and the main focus will be on practical application and ‘playing to learn’. Lessons take an informal, fun approach where straight away we will look at playing the kind of music you wish to play and your own enthusiasm behind that becomes your engine for learning. This will be the case whether you are a beginner or more advanced. Below is a picture of me performing with Amy Winehouse at V Festival in 2008: I have plenty of teaching resources, equipment and guitars at my home studio so there is no need to bring your own instrument if that is inconvenient. I am prepared to travel to you for lessons but we would need to agree that on a different basis. For more information simply get in touch via the contact form below.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Acoustic Guitar]]></category> <link>http://www.msmusic.biz/AcousticGuitar/acoustic-guitar-lessons-london</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msmusic.biz/AcousticGuitar/acoustic-guitar-lessons-london</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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